Community Music

Sing from the Heart is a community song-creation project I first organised in 2024, where I encouraged my therapeutic singing groups to contribute their ideas for a song extolling the joys of amateur group singing. The project was captured in a mini-documentary showing the creation process and interactive performance. It was released alongside a single and music video in April 2025 and can be viewed and streamed here (as well as all the usual places).

This year we have repeated the process with a new track called Let there be Music - which you can find out all about here, and how to get involved!

I have been running community choirs with Living Lively for 3 years. I also run the Singing for Mental Health Community Choir at Revival in Whitstable.

Sing from the Heart

Sing from the Heart is a collaborative, intergenerational, and mixed-ability community music project that celebrates the power of group singing. I invite participants from the different singing groups I run to contribute lyrical ideas to songs, and then to capture their voices on a final recording.

We then invite all those who were involved in the creation process to come together under one roof at the splendid QRBC in Broadstairs, to bring the track to life, will a full backing band of some of Kent’s finest musicians. Sing from the Heart is a participatory concert, where audience members sit amongst performers and join in the fun! The whole event is filmed by professional videographers to create a music video for the finished track. It’s a joyful event where we also sing well known songs and enjoy each other’s company, a slice of cake and a good old fashioned boogie!

The first event in 2024 drew up to 200 people, aged 9 to 90, from the year 6s at Ramsgate Arts Primary School, therapeutic singing groups from Music 4 Wellbeing and the WEB Young Adults from the Gap Project. For this year’s event we’re delighted to be welcoming the Inspiration Creative signing choir into the event too.

2025

Let there be Music

I invite you to listen to the track so far!

If you are thinking about coming along to the event, it would be highly preferable if you were a little bit familiar with the song. And if you’d like to peruse the lyrics as you listen to the track, they can be found here.

2024

Sing from the Heart Mini Doc + Music Vid

This film documents the first Sing from the Heart community music project. The documentary segment was filmed and edited by Rosie Carr. The music video at the end was filmed and edited by Chris Wade. The outset of the film functions as an exposé for the therapeutic music workshops I run with Music 4 Wellbeing. It will give the viewer an idea of the mental and physical benefits of these singing groups for their participants. I then introduce the collaborative song project with comments from some of those who took part, and some clips from the rehearsals and group recording sessions. Finally you can see footage from the interactive performance at Queens Road Baptist Church which functions as the music video for the finished recording. I hope you enjoy!!

Sing from the Heart Music Video

This music video was filmed and edited by Chris Wade of the Kent Video Company and uses footage from our interactive performance at Queens Road Baptist Church.